A bare 24-hours after the German government warned Jews not to wear their traditional kippah in public places due to rising antisemitism, it now wants them to continue the practice to help defeat anti-Jewish sentiment.
Germany’s warning to Jews on the dangers of wearing the traditional kippah cap in public were a “capitulation to anti-Semitism” and evidence Jews were unsafe there, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said Sunday.
TEL AVIV – Israel has agreed to release more Syrian prisoners in return for the remains of fallen Israeli soldiers in Syria, the London-based Asharq al-Awsat newspaper reported Tuesday.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the “abhorrent” shooting attack in a Poway, California Chabad synagogue on Saturday that killed one woman and wounded three others.
TEL AVIV – Israel has offered aid to Sri Lanka as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his shock after a bombing attack killed at least 290 people and wounded 600 others on Easter Sunday.
Israeli and Jewish leaders leaders condemned the series of deadly bombings which killed at least 207 people and wounded hundreds more in Sri Lanka Sunday morning.
TEL AVIV – Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday officially appointed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the task of forming a new government for the 21st Knesset and added a plea that the Israeli premier do everything in his fifth term to bridge divides in the nation after an “us versus them” election campaign.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used his social media platforms in the hours before the start of the Jewish festival of Passover to salute Israel’s burgeoning place in the world.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli President Reuven Rivlin sent their condolences to Paris on Monday night after a fire engulfed the Notre Dame Cathedral.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday called an emergency meeting to warn Likud party leaders that a right-wing government was at real risk of being toppled in favor of a left-wing and Arab-centric coalition put together by main rival party Blue and White following Tuesday’s elections.
TEL AVIV – President Reuven Rivlin’s wife Nechama was in stable condition Wednesday morning but remained sedated and on a respirator after a sudden deterioration in her condition the previous evening.
TEL AVIV – The IDF on Sunday began preparations for the demolition of the home of a Palestinian man who confessed to brutally murdering a 19-year-old Israeli woman in Jerusalem last week, suggesting that security forces believe that the murder constituted an act of terror.
JERUSALEM — Moshe Arens, a former Israeli defense minister, foreign minister and an early political mentor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, died Monday. He was 93.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s south was pounded with a barrage of more than 80 rockets launched from the Hamas-ruling Gaza Strip Monday afternoon, injuring one man seriously and another two moderately.
TEL AVIV – The newly appointed ambassadors from Jordan and Egypt on Thursday praised their countries’ peace agreements with Israel in a meeting with President Reuven Rivlin Thursday, but said that Israel must also come to an agreement with the Palestinians.
TEL AVIV – American Jewish leaders and Israeli politicians on Tuesday hailed outgoing U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley for standing up for Israel at the global body.
The posture of being “triggered” not only risks destroying dialogue altogether, but it also compounds the pain felt by the offended party.
Poland’s second city welcomed thousands of visitors Wednesday ahead of Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, on Thursday as participants in the annual “March of the Living” memorial gathered in the town.
Abbas expects President Trump to disregard his statements and continue to bankroll his terror-supporting regime in the name of “the peace process,” just as Bush and Obama did.
Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono on Monday laid a wreath at Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem and called for stronger ties between the two countries.
TEL AVIV – President Reuven Rivlin on Monday congratulated Britain’s Prince Harry on his engagement to U.S. actress Meghan Markle and invited the couple to honeymoon in Israel following their spring 2018 wedding.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the “horrific and despicable terrorist attack” in Sinai and sent condolences to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the Egyptian people and the families of the 305 people killed in the attack.
TEL AVIV – President Reuven Rivlin on Sunday slammed Arab-Israeli leaders for not condemning Friday’s terror attack at the Temple Mount, saying their silence was tantamount to endorsing the shooting.
TEL AVIV – On a visit to Israel, Washington’s ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley slammed the UN for “bullying” Israel and assured Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the U.S. has the Jewish state’s back.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday slammed the latest “absurd” resolution passed by the UN’s cultural agency calling Israeli presence in Jerusalem “illegal,” and ordered that funds to the international body be cut again by another $1 million.
In the aftermath of the passage of a UNESCO resolution calling Israel’s presence in Jerusalem “illegal,” President Reuven Rivlin on Tuesday urged the world to recognize the city as the capital of the Jewish state and to transfer their embassies there.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin offered their condolences on Friday to the family of the British woman murdered in a terror attack in Jerusalem earlier in the day, later identified as Hannah Bladon, 21, an exchange student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV – President Reuven Rivlin on Monday said he supports the full annexation of the West Bank so long as Palestinians residing there are granted equal rights and Israeli citizenship.
Even as settlement activity has become an even hotter potato than usual at the UN, President Reuven Rivlin is planning to cross the Green Line on Monday and light Hanukka candles for the third night of the festival at the Beit El Yeshiva with the institution’s teachers and pupils.
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin reaffirmed the strong relations between the Jewish state and India in meetings with the leaders of the South Asian country during a state visit Tuesday.
TEL AVIV – Donald Trump on Wednesday invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to visit the White House at the “first opportunity,” according to the Prime Minister’s Office.
President Reuven Rivlin sent a letter of condolence to his Turkish counterpart in the aftermath of what he called a “cowardly, murderous” terror attack at an Istanbul airport Tuesday that killed at least 41 and injured more than 230.
President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday told members of the European Parliament that international efforts to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement — including the current French initiative — were “negotiations for negotiations’ sake,” and therefore doomed to fail.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that Jerusalem will never be redivided in a ceremony marking 49 years since the unification of Jerusalem on Sunday.
TEL AVIV – “We will not give up our hope to achieve peace with our enemies- But first we will achieve peace with ourselves,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a speech in Jerusalem on Tuesday in memory of Israel’s fallen soldiers.
TEL AVIV – Thousands of Israelis opened their living rooms to the public on Wednesday evening, hosting Holocaust survivors who told of their personal experiences on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day.
TEL AVIV – Turkey will sign a reconciliation agreement with Israel if the latter agrees to resolve the electricity and water crises in the Gaza Strip, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told reporters in Qatar on Friday.
The Times of Israel reports: Ankara is willing to work together with Jerusalem in fighting international terrorism, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his Israeli counterpart Reuven Rivlin Wednesday, in a rare phone call between the two leaders. Erdogan expressed
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin will ask Russia on Wednesday to ensure that its partial pullout from Syria does not embolden Iranian and Hezbollah forces there, an Israeli official said. Rivlin is in Moscow to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose
The Jerusalem Post reports: Support for Israel has never been and must not become a political party issue. It is bipartisan, President Reuven Rivlin (pictured left) told the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations on Thursday. The bonds between